Secondtruth Blog Archives

  • Potpourri Entry

    I found out today there will be no more GameSetWatch. I am saddened! They had some of the neatest, quirkiest game coverage, and that’s, for example, where I learned so much about Roguelikes and Dating sims. Other than that, yeah, mostly playing Skyrim. Insert standard comment about how I’m 100 hours in and haven’t done…

  • I Accidentally the Arch-mage of Winterhold

    This contains complete spoilers for everything that happens in the Mage’s College quests in Skyrim. I cast a little Destruction magic in my spare time, because it’s an easier way to get around guys who use shields. Everyone said I should check out the Mage’s College, so, I did. I solved some small student problems,…

  • Thoughts on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, After Playing It 30 Hours

    Over on Tap, the thread I started about Skyrim kind of exploded. Skyrim is obviously somewhat controversial and as a game of the size that it is, there is so much to discuss that a five-hour preview barely scratches the surface.  I should have realized that before posting, but I did anyway, because it’s good to…

  • IF Comp is over!

    Not that you needed to hear it from me, but, the top-rated comp games have been announced, and you can go here to find out more. Congratulations to the winners… heck, to all the participants, because you made and released a game! The top-rated game turned out to be Taco Fiction, a game about which…

  • A Thing that Happened in Skyrim

    So last night like thousands of other people I was up a bit late playing Skyrim on Steam. I was waiting around to — …you know, a lot of people don’t have this yet, so I’ll buffer just a little and put in a spoiler tag. I’m not sure how to say what part of…

  • Now Playing Skyrim

    I started playing Skyrim yesterday! Then I wrote a bit about it, at Tap-Repeatedly. I might chronicle Cultural Cat Girl’s adventures here in greater specificity, but only if I find the time between actually playing the game. I am a huge fan of taking screenshots, though.

  • IF Comp 2011: The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M … and final thoughts

    The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M is likely to be the last comp game that I review, because I can’t figure out how to get Ted Paladin and the Case of the Abandoned House to run right, and the comp itself is coming to a close very soon. I admit I had a small…

  • IF Comp 2011: Cursed

    I don’t really like this very much, but it’s taken me about an hour to convince myself that that is not my fault. My first instinct when something is fairly well-written is to blame myself instead of the design, but in the case of this game, it really probably is the design. This is kind…

  • IF Comp 2011: Playing Games

    I actually played this one a few days ago, but it was so underwhelming I forgot to post about it. I’ll spoil-cut anyway because I am polite. All this game really amounts to is a series of three visual puzzles that are in a text format. They’re basically like a ball you roll through a…

  • IF Comp 2011: The Ship of Whimsy

    Another untested game. I’ll play it anyway and tell you what I think! I don’t think much, really. This game plays as if someone realized suddenly that they could set a game to ship directions instead of compass directions, so they just had to do that. Beyond that there isn’t much to it. Go here,…

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